Description This cute little Black-capped Chickadee seems to be thanking me for providing his favorite snack, black-oil sunflower seeds! He even perched on my shoe at one point, but my lens couldn't capture that proximity. Chickadees eat their weight in insects every day and so make the best organic pest control, so why not invite them to dinner?

Marion Muirhead, Waterloo, ONMember Since March 2007Artist Statement An impossible decision between art, literature, and music has led me to find the universal patterns that apply in nature, language, and paralanguage. I wrote my dissertation on complex systems dynamics, otherwise known as Chaos Theory. In this way, I've found that these interests are complementary and rather than detracting from each other, they lend a wholeness to my understanding of each area of interest.

I hope you enjoy these images and find them both simple and complex: there is always something new to be found even in the most familiar, every-day sights . . .